Bay 12 Games Forum

So, a while ago I edited my Masterwork raws to bump up the percentage of naturally magic dwarves, just for flavor.  I like starting with an Earth or Waterkin, just to give my military leader that extra something.  However, that was a loong time ago, and I would like to do the same thing now, and am having a lot of trouble recalling exactly how I managed it.  Could someone point me in the right direction?

Am I the only one worried that the new minecart physics, while cool, are going to ruin any "fun" that might possibly happen from this release on?  Why risk dwarves in wars when you just blow the enemies apart rolling minecarts onto them?  Who would care about HFS syndromes when the only things at risk are minecarts, which probably can't get sick?   And so on.

The realism is appreciated, but the less blatant game breaking exploits there are, the better, imo - it's not like they are hard to find already, and siege engines are unimpressive enough without minecarts stealing all their thunder.

I've read that miners, if put into a militia, can use mining skill as the weapon skill for a pick.  So I'm wondering - would it be worth it to forge up a pile of picks and set my militia to dig out a few random z levels?  Mining is probably the easiest skill to level up in the game - would 10 legendary miners with strong picks be as effective as, say, an average squad of axemen or whatever?